Cyber warfare is here to stay. The Russia/Ukraine conflict underscores the long-held fear that kinetic warfare can and would be combined with organized, sustained cyber warfare to be used asymmetrically against a militarized adversary and its’ country’s critical...
In the past years, there has been increasing awareness by the public and policy makers on the potential harm that social network manipulation can produce. Yet, most researchers have looked at the front end of the problem: developing algorithms to flag fake accounts on...
This post describes a backdoor that spawns a fully encrypted and integrity checked reverse shell that was found in our SSH honeypot, and that was presented at GoSec 2017 in Montreal. We named the backdoor ‘Chaos’, following the name the attacker gave it on the system....
Last Saturday, January 27th, the New York Times published a detailed article on the sales of automated likes and follows by an American company called Demuvi. The same day, a New York attorney general announced that he opened an investigation on the company, which...
Cybercrime is an evolving phenomenon and offenders are continuously adapting to find new techniques to monetize their illicit activities. Our research paper and upcoming BlackHat Europe presentation – EGO MARKET: When People’s Greed for Fame Benefits Large-Scale...
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